As Long As Gas Is Cheaper Than

I Don't Ever Want To Believe My Own Press Clippings, Good Or Bad.

One Of The Things I've Had The Advantage Of, Growing Up And Being Close To The Top Management Of This Company And Other Companies For Most Of My Life, Is Seeing How Ceos Start To Believe In Their Own Infallibility. And That Really Scares Me.

I Think I Was The First Executive To Ever Speak At A Greenpeace Business Conference, In London In 2001. That Didn't Play Well Here At Ford, But I Thought It Was An Important Signal To Send Internally, That These Were The Kind Of Issues We Needed To Be Grappling With.

I Never Wanted Ford To Be A Place, Like The Tobacco Industry, Where Our Employees Were Not Proud Of Coming To Work For Us. I Felt There Was A Danger Of That, Should We Be Marginalized As A Major Polluter.

Creating A Strong Business And Building A Better World Are Not Conflicting Goals - They Are Both Essential Ingredients For Long-term Success